Blue Marble Next Generation

The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel.
Blue marble next generation. Next generation 2000 2005. June blue marble next generation w topography and bathymetry. Leveraging strategic relationships and gaining early access to next generation asics fpgas and select advanced microcircuits. Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet.
Published june 1 2004. Nasa s terra satellite collected these images. 21600 x 10800 25 mb jpeg. Next generation images show earth in true color.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. June blue marble next generation w topography. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface. 5400 x 2700 2 mb jpeg. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. Next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. 1 mb pdf. And our blue marble next generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface with a maximum resolution of 500 meters per pixel 86 400 pixels by 43 200 pixels.
There is one blue marble image for each month of the year 2004. Our blue marble features imagery of land surfaces of each month with a maximum resolution of 1000 meters per pixel 43 200 pixel by 21 600 pixel. June blue marble next generation w topography and bathymetry. These are not the best known of the blue marble images probably because they are styled to look like traditional world maps for instance the mercator projection and not well blue marbles.
The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. They even have europe in the centre. The images show how the surface would look to a human in space if our world had no clouds and no atmosphere. 21600 x 21600 23 mb jpeg.
5400 x 2700 14 mb png.